Wednesday, 14 March 2012

In a modern world filled with the gory excitement of such masterpieces as TheTexas Chainsaw Massacre and The Shining , the usual phantasmagoria fare of cut out Skeletons and Vampire Bats rarely fill our hearts with terror as much they probably used to. Victorians however were actally doing some pretty creepy things in real life - one such thing was post-mortem photography. Where a dead family member - sometimes an entire family - depending on how horrific the incident- would be dressed up in their finest clothes and posed as if alive.

Using some Post-Mortem photography quickly sourced from the internet, I've attempted to put together an early attempt the content I'd like to use in my phantasmagoria projections. The result is pretty rough. In theory the image of the child will appear as ethereal, misty image on the surface of what I'm projecting onto. That will work of course, but the video above is lacking a lot of dynamism at the moment.

I think making the image more abstract could work, so its only in small 'blink and you'll miss it' moments that image takes full shape. More to come...

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Tom Beg

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Oh - and it's a green light for the 5 40" plasmas for ND 2012! The actual screens as objects are 96cm wide, and they'll be on free-standing supports - and obviously running in a line at eye-height across the back wall - which sort of gives us a filmstrip effect to work with already... so, I can well imagine these zoetropic idents flipping their way across the screens;

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I'm a CG artist working just outside of London, specialising in finding innovative and creative ways to represent unusual types of information through the use of computer generated animation and art. This approach has seen me creating animated short films as well as site-specific installation using projection mapping. My animated work has been featured on dozens of high-profile websites including: Short of the Week, Vimeo Staff Picks, BBC and even the late, great Roger Ebert's website.

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